A huge Take That fan’s 40th birthday plans were “ruined” after she says she was cheated out of tickets in an alleged online scam.

Cheam mum Michelle Jenkins was planning to see them at a Royal Albert Hall charity gig, for the Teenage Cancer Trust, on March 28.

But despite trying to ensure the company was legitimate, she claims she fell victim to an alleged con - getting “caught up in the excitement of what I was getting rather than what I was losing”.

Michelle says she wasn’t the only one feeling cheated, as did roughly a dozen others.

One mum, who says she was at Manchester Arena on the night of the bombing in May 2017, claims to have been scammed out of £600 for tickets to see Ariana Grande at a meet-and-greet.

It started last December when Michelle spotted VIP Ticket Sales advertising tickets online and bought three ahead of her birthday in March.

“I looked into the company, it looked all legit,” she said. “Spoke to my friends, they did the same and looked it up - Googled, researched - and all looked okay.”

Then VIP Ticket Sales began advertising other events throughout Christmas – including meet-and-greets with pop star Ariana Grande.

Michelle “won a competition” to see Take That on a summer tour, spending £110 on an extra ticket to go with a friend, but soon became concerned.

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The VIP Ticket Sales Twitter profile before it was suspended

“When the competitions started running there were more and more winners and it sort of became a bit, 'Well, hold on a minute, how have you got this many tickets?'”, she said.

“People questioned how that was the case. Suddenly their phone line was gone, their Twitter page was gone, their website was gone and there were just no contacts.

“They had replied to every Twitter message, every email, they had answered the phone - there was always contact until that day. From that day on, nothing.

“They knew through the phone call that it was my 40th birthday that I was buying the tickets for, they knew it was a charity event because the money is meant to go to charity, and they quite happily sold non-existent tickets.”

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One of VIP Ticket Sales' tweets

Action Fraud said the incident is being looked into, however, Michelle feels it’s unlikely she’ll get her money back.

She added: “The shocking thing is the fact that they get away with it. I still can't believe that nothing's done. These people have made, so far, tens of thousands - and possibly more - and they can just do it.

“One little girl that I know of, the mum bought tickets for a meet-and-greet with Ariana Grande, this little girl was involved in the Manchester bombings.

“The mum had bought a meet-and-greet just to try and get over that and these people knew that they were selling fake tickets to someone that had been traumatised.”

Sutton Guardian could not reach VIP Ticket Sales for comment.